{"id":4261,"date":"2017-06-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/24\/special-presentation-what-is-gold-damascene\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:17:56","slug":"special-presentation-what-is-gold-damascene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/24\/special-presentation-what-is-gold-damascene\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Presentation: What is Gold Damascene?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4KM7ySNWuqU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Today were are going to do something a bit different than normal, and take a detailed look at an intersection of arms and art: gold damascene. This is a type of art used to embellish a wide variety of objects, including firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Gold damascene enjoyed a renaissance in Spain in the mid 1850s thanks to the work of a man named Placido Zuloaga and his father. During this time, and at Placido&#8217;s hands, the form changed from a simple background to show off engraving into a technique of primary artistry.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we will look at:<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; What gold damascening actually is (compared to other forms of artistic embellishment)<br \/>\n &#8211; How the art form developed from the 1850s until the current day<br \/>\n &#8211; How damascening is actually done<br \/>\n &#8211; The main different styles<br \/>\n &#8211; How to discern good damascening from outstanding damascening and mediocre damascening<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this will leave you with both a new appreciation and a new understanding of damascening!<\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merchandise! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today were are going to do something a bit different than normal, and take a detailed look at an intersection of arms and art: gold damascene. This is a type of art used to embellish a wide variety of objects, including firearms. Gold damascene enjoyed a renaissance in Spain in the mid 1850s thanks to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/24\/special-presentation-what-is-gold-damascene\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Special Presentation: What is Gold Damascene?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14821,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions\/14821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}